At the recently completed Byte CII World Championship in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Singapore sailors took the top three positions with Darren Choy the new 2009 World Champion.

Singapore took all them major prizes at the recent Byte CII World Championship held in Canada, sending an ominous message ahead of next year's Youth Olympic Games (YOG), where the Byte CII will be used as equipment in the One Person Dinghy Boys and One Person Dinghy Girls events. All three of the Singapore medal winners are under 16 and will be eligible for the YOG next year (which is open to 15-16 year olds).

Darren Choy sailed an incredibly consistent series in tremendously varying conditions without winning any of the 14 races. His average point score per race, (counting his two drops!) was a mere four, with five seconds, four thirds, a fourth, a sixth and a seventh! Terrence Choo of Singapore was second overall, winning three races but not quite able to match Choy's consistency. Chai Xun of Singapore completed the podium in third overall, beating out Jon Emmett, the defending champion, for third place by one point. Emmett, also recent UK Laser Radial Open winner, was fourth with six wins but still finished 25 points behind Choy.

First female and fifth overall was another Singapore sailor, Najwa Jumali, who put in particularly strong performance during the heaviest day of the series when winds reached 22 knots and she scored three fifth place finishes.

The series was used by many of the nine countries as a training event for the North American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier to be sailed in Cayman Islands in March. Other YOG qualifiers are set to take place in Africa, Thailand, Brazil, Italy and Australia. The final qualification event will be the 2010 Byte CII World Championship, held in Cannes, France next April.

Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

There was some fast paced action in the 49er and 49erFX Medal Races at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as Nathan Outteridge & Iain Jensen (AUS) and Maia & Ragna Agerup (NOR) claimed the honours and Abu Dhabi final spots.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.

Nicolai Sehested (DEN) and his TREFOR Match Racing Team clinched victory today at the Energa Sopot Match Race, Poland, the 10th stage and World Championship Event of the 2015 World Match Racing Tour (WMRT).

There was no stopping current, and five-time ISAF Match Racing World Champion Ian Williams (GBR), GAC Pindar today at the Energa Sopot Match Race as he swiftly dispatched his Quarter Final opponent Joachim Aschenbrenner (DEN) in three straight wins.

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) continues to address concerns and is taking steps to ensure the health and safety of all athletes who will be competing in the upcoming Aquece Rio, Olympic Test Event and the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition.

Veteran Polish match racer and America's Cup helmsman Karol Jablonski skilfully played the gusty conditions today to lead the twelve strong field of teams at the end of Day 2 of Qualifying at the 2015 Energa Sopot Match Race.